Information & Communications Technology

Seasoned technologists, digital innovators, and other ICT experts, dedicated to advancing the field of information and communications technology

Camillo Bucciarelli

Camillo Bucciarelli

Manager e sviluppatore software specializzato nello sviluppo mobile e applicazioni cross-platform con oltre 10 anni di esperienza nel settore IT. Attualmente ricopro il ruolo di Manager @ Sopra Steria e mi occupo di architetture, sviluppo e strategie tecnologiche per prodotti software moderni. Ho una solida esperienza su Android nativo, Flutter e Firebase, e supporto team e aziende nel raggiungere obiettivi di trasformazione digitale, usabilità e scalabilità.

Parallelamente alla mia attività professionale, contribuisco attivamente alla community tecnologia come membro GDG, insegno e faccio mentoring presso ITS Lanciano, e partecipo come speaker in conferenze nazionali su temi legati a Flutter, Firebase e buone pratiche di sviluppo software.

Manager e sviluppatore software specializzato nello sviluppo mobile e applicazioni cross-platform con oltre 10 anni di esperienza nel settore IT. Attualmente ricopro il ruolo di Manager @ Sopra Steria e mi occupo di architetture, sviluppo e strategie... Show more

Luca Di Vita

Luca Di Vita

I hold a degree in Computer Engineering from the University of L'Aquila. My passion lies in research, particularly in Machine Learning and Evolutionary Computation.
I work as a Machine Learning Engineer in the IT sector, focusing on security and defense.
Driven by curiosity and a love for continuous learning, I have ventured into the world of Dev Talks, where I enjoy sharing knowledge and connecting with the tech community.

My goal is to inspire and engage others with the same enthusiasm that fuels my work, fostering discussions that push the boundaries of technology and innovation.

See my personal blog here: https://www.lucadivita.it/

I hold a degree in Computer Engineering from the University of L'Aquila. My passion lies in research, particularly in Machine Learning and Evolutionary Computation. I work as a Machine Learning Engineer in the IT sector, focusing on security and def... Show more

Tim Wolf

Tim Wolf

Since the beginning of my IT profession, my focus has been on identity and automation. Currently i work for semperis with a strong focus on protecting your Identity Provider, both on premise and Cloud.
In my previous role as a PFE at Microsoft, my daily job included making customers happy with their current Identity Landscape and evolving the future with Entra ID and Zero Trust Concepts.
Part of the Germany Identity SME Team, i was involved in all projects in EMEA to drive topics like Identity Protection, Conditional Access or Passkeys and ZTNA.

Since the beginning of my IT profession, my focus has been on identity and automation. Currently i work for semperis with a strong focus on protecting your Identity Provider, both on premise and Cloud. In my previous role as a PFE at Microsoft, my... Show more

Kevin Dubois

Kevin Dubois

Kevin Dubois is often featured as a (keynote) speaker at conferences around the world, where he shares his passion and knowledge about developer experience, open source, cloud native development and Java. He is also an author, java Champion, and an accomplished software architect and platform engineer. Kevin currently works as a Senior Principal Developer Advocate at IBM, and is also Technical Lead for the CNCF Developer Experience Technical Advisory Group.

Multilingual and multicultural, Kevin speaks English, Dutch, French, and Italian fluently. Currently based in Switzerland, he has also lived in Belgium, Italy, Montana and Utah.
When he’s not coding or speaking at conferences, you’ll likely find Kevin exploring the great outdoors—whether he's hiking rugged trails, gravel biking through scenic routes, snowboarding down epic mountain slopes, or packrafting & kayaking on untamed waters.

Kevin Dubois is often featured as a (keynote) speaker at conferences around the world, where he shares his passion and knowledge about developer experience, open source, cloud native development and Java. He is also an author, java Champion, and an a... Show more

Nikhilesh Tayal

Nikhilesh Tayal

Nikhilesh is an entrepreneur, teacher and tech nerd
He is an IIT Kharagpur alumnus. He is also a Google Developer Expert in AI and has over 15,000 followers on LinkedIn.
Currently, he runs "AI ML etc." - an AI-enabled educational platform for senior IT professionals to learn AI. He is an instructor at LinkedIn Learning as well
Recently, he was felicitated by the Chief Minister of Rajasthan for his contribution to education.

Nikhilesh is an entrepreneur, teacher and tech nerd He is an IIT Kharagpur alumnus. He is also a Google Developer Expert in AI and has over 15,000 followers on LinkedIn. Currently, he runs "AI ML etc." - an AI-enabled educational platform for senio... Show more

A N M  Bazlur Rahman

A N M Bazlur Rahman

A N M Bazlur Rahman is a Java Champion and Senior Staff Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building and scaling systems on the JVM. His work focuses on modern Java, especially concurrency, virtual threads, and the evolving architecture of high-performance applications.

He is a Contributing Editor at InfoQ and a regular writer at Foojay, where he covers Java platform evolution and emerging trends. Bazlur is also the founder of the Java User Group Bangladesh, a community he has been growing since 2013 through meetups and conferences.

An active international speaker, he is known for practical, engineering-focused talks that cut through hype and focus on real-world trade-offs. He is the author of five Java books in Bengali, as well as the O’Reilly title Modern Concurrency in Java.

A N M Bazlur Rahman is a Java Champion and Senior Staff Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building and scaling systems on the JVM. His work focuses on modern Java, especially concurrency, virtual threads, and the evolving architectur... Show more

Alan Cox

Alan Cox

IT Leader, Instructor, and Conference Speaker with decades of experience in Microsoft solutions, currently serving as Director of Microsoft Governance and Microsoft MVP for M365 & Copilot. I'm passionate about leveraging technology to empower organizations, enhance productivity, and promote secure digital transformation. Dedicated to aligning innovative solutions with organizational goals to deliver impactful outcomes.

IT Leader, Instructor, and Conference Speaker with decades of experience in Microsoft solutions, currently serving as Director of Microsoft Governance and Microsoft MVP for M365 & Copilot. I'm passionate about leveraging technology to empower organiz... Show more

Mahendran Selvakumar

Mahendran Selvakumar

I'm Mahendran Selvakumar, a Cloud Native technologist and Open Source advocate with deep experience in Kubernetes, AWS, and HashiCorp tools and Service Mesh. I'm a HashiCorp Ambassador, Linkerd Ambassador, AWS Community Builder. I organize the AWS West Midlands, West Midlands HashiCorp, and Cloud Native Birmingham user groups.

I’ve delivered talks at DevOps Live, HashiTalks, Hashicorp User Groups and other industry events, focusing on Kubernetes,platform engineering, secure infrastructure, and service mesh adoption. I also mentor students through free AWS and Terraform training and publish technical blogs on https://devopstronaut.com to make Cloud Native and Open Source technologies more accessible.

I'm Mahendran Selvakumar, a Cloud Native technologist and Open Source advocate with deep experience in Kubernetes, AWS, and HashiCorp tools and Service Mesh. I'm a HashiCorp Ambassador, Linkerd Ambassador, AWS Community Builder. I organize the AWS We... Show more

Bob Fornal

Bob Fornal

Microsoft MVP and Torc Ambassador with a focus on Web Development: JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS, SVG, Angular, React, React-Native, Vue, and Ionic. I commonly speak about Cloud CI/CD, Quality Engineering, Best Practices, and Front-End Technologies.

* Owner of Code Squid, LLC.
* Senior Solutions Developer II (Front-End) at Leading EDJE, Inc.

"Learning from my mistakes over the decades, I feel that I have become a solid programmer." -- Me

Microsoft MVP and Torc Ambassador with a focus on Web Development: JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS, SVG, Angular, React, React-Native, Vue, and Ionic. I commonly speak about Cloud CI/CD, Quality Engineering, Best Practices, and Front-End Technologies. ... Show more

Matthias Falland

Matthias Falland

Matthias Falland is a Microsoft MVP and Trusted Advisor specializing in Microsoft Fabric enterprise architecture. He has designed and implemented Fabric platforms for 20+ organizations, including multi-department government environments with 50+ offices. A regular speaker at FabCon, Ignite, and Data Platform conferences, Matthias also runs three Data Platform Meetup groups, produces a weekly Fabric Friday YouTube series covering all 57 Periodic Table elements, and delivers an advanced architecture training series. He lives near Basel, Switzerland.

Matthias Falland is a Microsoft MVP and Trusted Advisor specializing in Microsoft Fabric enterprise architecture. He has designed and implemented Fabric platforms for 20+ organizations, including multi-department government environments with 50+ offi... Show more

Sarah Dutkiewicz

Sarah Dutkiewicz

Sadukie is a tech polyglot who brings code to life and helps others unlock their potential through teaching and mentorship. As a seasoned software architect with a sharp eye for user experience, she makes it easy for developers to pick up new tools and hit the ground running. When technical roadblocks pop up, she’s the one who clears the path—breaking down complex ideas and helping teams communicate more effectively. A natural connector and strong community advocate, Sadukie loves bringing people together across the tech world. Whether she’s mentoring, speaking, or juggling life as a full-time mom, her mission stays the same: to make tech more approachable and spark confidence in every coder’s journey.

Sadukie is a tech polyglot who brings code to life and helps others unlock their potential through teaching and mentorship. As a seasoned software architect with a sharp eye for user experience, she makes it easy for developers to pick up new tools a... Show more

Jessica Andersson

Jessica Andersson

Jessica has extensive experience and expertise within cloud architecture, cloud infrastructure and platform engineering. She's a hands-on technical leader who has built up and led platform teams within developer experience and data. She is also a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) ambassador who regularly shares her knowledge both in the local Gothenburg community and at conferences such as QCon.​

Jessica has extensive experience and expertise within cloud architecture, cloud infrastructure and platform engineering. She's a hands-on technical leader who has built up and led platform teams within developer experience and data. She is also a Clo... Show more

Sari Soinoja

Sari Soinoja

Sari is a passionate and trusted Lead Consultant at Meltlake, bringing deep expertise from a wide variety of customer projects—from modern ways of working to change management and large-scale digital transformation. Her strong background in product development gives her a unique perspective on how Microsoft 365 tools can be applied effectively to solve real-world organizational challenges.

As a Microsoft MVP for SharePoint, Sari specializes in SharePoint, document management, metadata, M365 Copilot, and the strategic use of Microsoft 365. She has a rare talent for helping others truly understand how to leverage these tools to support modern, efficient, and sustainable work practices.

Over the past decade, Sari has been an active contributor to the Microsoft 365 community, sharing her knowledge through public speaking engagements, trainings, and webinars. Whether explaining the role of AI in M365 or guiding organizations through complex information management topics, she is known for making challenging concepts both accessible and engaging.

Sari is a passionate and trusted Lead Consultant at Meltlake, bringing deep expertise from a wide variety of customer projects—from modern ways of working to change management and large-scale digital transformation. Her strong background in product d... Show more

Felipe Augusto

Felipe Augusto

Microsoft MVP

Microsoft MVP Show more

Chedy Missaoui

Chedy Missaoui

Technical Account Manager at Tessan group focused on making Azure PaaS deliver real business value, AI Coding Agent enthusiast, and DevOps consultant.

As a Technical Account Manager, Chedy helps organizations translate business requirements into scalable Azure PaaS solutions, ensuring cloud platforms are aligned with both technical and strategic goals.

Passionate about AI-assisted development, he actively explores the use of AI coding agents across the entire development lifecycle, from specification to operations.

Having previously successfully supported organizations in consolidating siloed teams and improving collaboration, Chedy remains a DevOps consultant at heart always focused on delivery acceleration.

Chedy is based in Tunis. Outside of work, he is a true food lover, always curious to discover and enjoy new cuisines.

Technical Account Manager at Tessan group focused on making Azure PaaS deliver real business value, AI Coding Agent enthusiast, and DevOps consultant. As a Technical Account Manager, Chedy helps organizations translate business requirements into s... Show more

Dan Barber

Dan Barber

I am a strategic advisor, community leader, and founder of Strathos, with over 20 years’ experience helping Microsoft partners and businesses scale with confidence. My background spans global system integrators, high‑growth partner practices, and advisory work with partners and businesses under pressure from growth, complexity, and change.

I specialise in helping partners uncover what is really holding performance back. Common challenges include margin leakage, delivery strain, unclear strategy, misaligned teams, and growth that feels harder than it should. My work focuses on turning these pressures into clarity, control, and sustainable momentum.

As founder of Strathos, I work closely with partner and business leadership teams using structured diagnostics, practical frameworks, and hands‑on support, combining strategic insight with real‑world execution, with a strong focus on measurable outcomes rather than theory.

A passionate advocate for people‑first transformation, I believe technology only delivers value when it enables people to do their best work. Alongside my client work, I am an active mentor, coach, and community leader across the Microsoft ecosystem.

My sessions are practical, honest, and grounded in real-world experience, giving attendees clear frameworks and next steps they can apply immediately.

I am a strategic advisor, community leader, and founder of Strathos, with over 20 years’ experience helping Microsoft partners and businesses scale with confidence. My background spans global system integrators, high‑growth partner practices, and adv... Show more

Kateryna Hrytsaienko

Kateryna Hrytsaienko

Hi there, nice to meet you! I’m Kateryna 👋

I’m a Senior Software Engineer, Security Champion, and MLOps stan. My mission? De-gatekeeping machine learning operations and making them actually accessible for every developer. After playing the field with Azure and AWS, I’ve officially caught feelings for GCP☁️✨

When I’m not deep in the codebase, I’m leading GDG Kyiv, repping as a Women Techmakers Ambassador, or lecturing at KPI and KSE. Whether I’m helping students ship production-ready Java/Spring Boot architectures or dropping deep dives on Medium(https://medium.com/@ekatereanagricaenko), I’m here for the community, the mentorship, and the "more is more" approach to impact 🚀🔥

Hi there, nice to meet you! I’m Kateryna 👋 I’m a Senior Software Engineer, Security Champion, and MLOps stan. My mission? De-gatekeeping machine learning operations and making them actually accessible for every developer. After playing the field ... Show more

Øystein Hagen Blixhavn

Øystein Hagen Blixhavn


Øystein Hagen Blixhavn is passionate about getting stuff done, in basically all senses of the words. If it reduces wasteful effort and time, fantastic. If it improves the developer experience and increases their flow, amazing! This aspiration has led him to roles as system- and platform architect and platform developer, because these roles are directly concerned with increasing rate of stuff getting done.

Learning stuff and gaining cool insights is another thing that drives him, and his talks always seek to stimulate curiosity and induce this feeling in the audience.

Øystein Hagen Blixhavn is passionate about getting stuff done, in basically all senses of the words. If it reduces wasteful effort and time, fantastic. If it improves the developer experience and increases their flow, amazing! This aspiration has ... Show more

Alexander Arvidsson

Alexander Arvidsson

Alexander is the Lead Data Transformation Architect at Advania in Sweden, where he spends his days helping clients of all shapes and sizes to take better care of - and make more sense of - their data.
He has spent the last 29 years poking around with data, databases, and related infrastructure services such as storage, networking, and virtualization, occasionally emerging from the technical darkness to attend a Star Wars convention somewhere in the world.
He is a long-time Data Platform MVP, frequent international speaker, podcaster, Pluralsight author, blogger, and a Microsoft Certified Trainer, focusing on the Microsoft data platform stack.

Alexander is the Lead Data Transformation Architect at Advania in Sweden, where he spends his days helping clients of all shapes and sizes to take better care of - and make more sense of - their data. He has spent the last 29 years poking around wit... Show more

Matti Paukkonen

Matti Paukkonen

In my role, I'm helping customers to gain more of their tools and effectively utilize technology supporting daily work-life. I'm a versatile professional always learning new, sharing knowledge, and going forward. Hosting workshops, solving problems, and designing solutions are near my heart. When adopting a new service or a technology, I need to get my hands dirty first and try it out.

On the community side, I'm co-organizing Teams Community Finland, which is Microsoft Teams-focused community for all Teams fanatics, end-user, developers, and consultants in Finland. I'm also active in Microsoft communities and speaking at events.

In my role, I'm helping customers to gain more of their tools and effectively utilize technology supporting daily work-life. I'm a versatile professional always learning new, sharing knowledge, and going forward. Hosting workshops, solving problems, ... Show more

Paco Xu

Paco Xu

Paco is a member of Kubernetes Steering Committee, and co-chair of KubeCon+CloudNativeCon China 2024.

Paco is a kubeadm maintainer and an active kubernetes contributor. His interest includes SIG-Node, LTS and CoreDNS.

He is the leader of the open-source team in DaoCloud. He organized KCD Chengdu 2022 and KCS China 2023, and speaked in KCD Shanghai, KubeCon EU 2023 & 2024 & 2025, and KubeCon China 2021, 2023, 2024 & 2025. He is also LFAPAC Evangelist.

Paco is a member of Kubernetes Steering Committee, and co-chair of KubeCon+CloudNativeCon China 2024. Paco is a kubeadm maintainer and an active kubernetes contributor. His interest includes SIG-Node, LTS and CoreDNS. He is the leader of the op... Show more

Sasha Denisov

Sasha Denisov

Sasha is CTO at Brainform.ai with over 20 years of experience architecting scalable enterprise systems. With a strong engineering background, his expertise spans frontend, backend, cloud infrastructure, mobile development, and AI — from cloud-based generative AI to on-device solutions. He specializes in building robust, production-ready products using a variety of technologies and frameworks. Sasha has delivered solutions across fintech, digital media, and entertainment. He is a Google Developer Expert for Cloud, AI, Firebase, Flutter, and Dart, co-organizes the Flutter Berlin Community, and is a recognized international speaker and writer, having presented at 30+ conferences worldwide.

Sasha is CTO at Brainform.ai with over 20 years of experience architecting scalable enterprise systems. With a strong engineering background, his expertise spans frontend, backend, cloud infrastructure, mobile development, and AI — from cloud-based g... Show more

Keren Kenzi

Keren Kenzi

Keren is a senior software developer with over a decade of experience in the industry. She holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science and is passionate about React and learning new technologies. Keren volunteers as a program manager at Baot, a community that supports women in R&D in their professional growth. She instructs and inspires people to write blogs in her tech blogging workshops. Keren has experience as a dev community leader and a co-organizer of meetups and events. And in her not-so-spare time, she studies psychology. Her hobbies include drawing, photography, and singing.

Keren is a senior software developer with over a decade of experience in the industry. She holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science and is passionate about React and learning new technologies. Keren volunteers as a program manager at Baot, a community that... Show more

Felix Jumason

Felix Jumason

Building cool software in Telco industry

Building cool software in Telco industry Show more

Massimo Crippa

Massimo Crippa

Massimo Crippa is a cloud enthusiast with 20+ years of experience shaping enterprise solutions on Microsoft technologies, with a tech-intensive mindset and a strong passion for exploring emerging technologies.

He began his career in the Italian ICT sector as a web developer before moving into messaging and cloud projects. Since 2011, he has lived and worked across Belgium and France, and today he is a Lead Architect at Codit.
Massimo’s expertise spans the full cloud journey: from defining strategy and demonstrating the value of Azure PaaS, AI, and container-based solutions to delivering hands-on implementations with customers.

Outside of work, he’s a proud dad of two, passionate about motorbikes, and always eager to explore the latest in cloud technology.

Massimo Crippa is a cloud enthusiast with 20+ years of experience shaping enterprise solutions on Microsoft technologies, with a tech-intensive mindset and a strong passion for exploring emerging technologies. He began his career in the Italian IC... Show more

Lian Li

Lian Li

Lian always wanted to save the world. After leaving law school, she decided to work with computers instead.
While in Web Dev, she started attending tech events, and soon fell in love with the community. In her roles as Consultant and DevRel, Lian combined technical knowledge with a focus on the human side.
Currently, Lian works as freelance Platform Engineer in Amsterdam and is the Chief Karaoke Officer for Kuberoke, the first and only Kubernetes Karaoke Community. She also enjoys performing in musical improvisation theatre and standup comedy shows.

Lian always wanted to save the world. After leaving law school, she decided to work with computers instead. While in Web Dev, she started attending tech events, and soon fell in love with the community. In her roles as Consultant and DevRel, Lian c... Show more

Renato Losio

Renato Losio

Renato has extensive experience as a cloud architect, tech lead, and cloud services specialist. Currently, he lives in Berlin and works remotely as a principal cloud architect. His primary areas of interest include cloud services and relational databases. He is an editor at InfoQ and a recognized AWS Data Hero. You can connect with him on LinkedIn.

Renato has extensive experience as a cloud architect, tech lead, and cloud services specialist. Currently, he lives in Berlin and works remotely as a principal cloud architect. His primary areas of interest include cloud services and relational datab... Show more

Nathaniel Schutta

Nathaniel Schutta

Nathaniel T. Schutta is a software architect and Java Champion focused on cloud computing, developer happiness and building usable applications. A proponent of polyglot programming, Nate has written multiple books, appeared in countless videos and many podcasts. He’s also a seasoned speaker who regularly presents at worldwide conferences, meetups, universities, and user groups. In addition to his day job, Nate is an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota, where he teaches students to embrace (and evaluate) technical change. Driven to rid the world of bad presentations, he coauthored the book Presentation Patterns with Neal Ford and Matthew McCullough, and he also published Thinking Architecturally and Responsible Microservices available from O’Reilly. His latest book, Fundamentals of Software Engineering is now available.

Nathaniel T. Schutta is a software architect and Java Champion focused on cloud computing, developer happiness and building usable applications. A proponent of polyglot programming, Nate has written multiple books, appeared in countless videos and ma... Show more

Scott McAllister

Scott McAllister

Scott McAllister is a software development speaker and educator. He has been building web applications in several industries for over a decade. Now he's helping others learn about a wide range of web and infrastructure technologies. When he's not coding, writing or speaking he enjoys long walks with his wife, skipping rocks with his kids, and is happy whenever Seattle Sounders FC, Manchester City, St. Louis Cardinals, Seattle Mariners, Chicago Bulls, Seattle Storm, Seattle Seahawks, Seattle Reign FC, St. Louis Blues, Seattle Kraken, Barcelona, Fiorentina, Borussia Dortmund or Mainz 05 can manage a win.

Scott McAllister is a software development speaker and educator. He has been building web applications in several industries for over a decade. Now he's helping others learn about a wide range of web and infrastructure technologies. When he's not cod... Show more

Evgenij Smirnov

Evgenij Smirnov

Evgenij has been working with computers since the age of 5 and delivering IT solutions for over 30 years. His Active Directory and Exchange background naturally led to PowerShell, of which he's been an avid user and proponent since its first release.
Evgenij is an active community lead at home in Berlin, a leading contributor to the German self-help forums and an experienced user group and conference speaker. He is a Security and PowerShell MVP since 2020. He is the author of "Building Modern Active Directory", released by Apress in 2024.

Evgenij has been working with computers since the age of 5 and delivering IT solutions for over 30 years. His Active Directory and Exchange background naturally led to PowerShell, of which he's been an avid user and proponent since its first release.... Show more

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